Lorelie FriesenLorelie Friesen was the eldest child in a military family whose travels across Canada brought her to the University of Alberta to study linguistics and psychology. She began her career in Port Colborne Ontario, where she studied parent-child attachmet and the impact of revising these interactions to achieve positive outcomes. Her personal experience with teenage pregnancy, adoption and re-unification, physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, suicide, and mental health challenges drove her to seek wisdom from others including Gabor Mate and Brene Brown. Her seeking also led her to explore the benefits of spirituality, journaling, poetry, and Women's Services. Her excavation may be an example for drawing new conclusions about trauma that promote self-compassion, healing and recovery. Read More Read Less